Tournament Analysis

Hello! This Tournament Analysis article series aims to summarize the tournament-winning metagame based on data from a weeklong period (for both Speed and Rush formats).

Today's report is based on tournaments held from December 08, 2025 to December 15, 2025

  • Speed Format
  • Rush Format

Performance Metric

Remarks

Fewer tournaments, but the tendency toward a diverse meta with 5-6 competitive decks (Shino, SS, Beetrooper, BE, Chimera, and Preda) remains.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Meta Weekly #406 SE/No Side 21 Predaplant Kaiju Swordsoul Eldlich
Quantum Dailies #497 SE/No Side 54 Swordsoul Blue Eyes Blue Eyes Vaylantz
The Wolf Series #79 SE/No Side 44 Shinobird Beetrooper Shinobird Predaplant
Suisen Weekly #179 SE/No Side 29 Swordsoul Eldlich Swordsoul Blue Eyes
Duel Links Grand Prix #129 Swiss/No Side 79 Predaplant Swordsoul Blue Eyes Predaplant
Sky Striker Cup #71 SE/No Side 41 Shinobird Shinobird Sky Striker Adamancipator
Starry Cup #82 SE/No Side 63 Chimera Shinobird Beetrooper Chimera
Latam Showdown #224 SE/No Side 29 Exosister Despia Speedroid Blue Eyes
Duel Links Dynasty #40 SE/No Side 46 Beetrooper Chimera Predaplant Blue Eyes
DLTC Weekly #4 SE/No Side 83 Beetrooper Chimera Blue Eyes Predaplant

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Meta Weekly #406 - MParadoXyt
1st Place in Quantum Dailies #497 - Madara
1st Place in The Wolf Series #79 - Sky
1st Place in Starry Cup #82 - Alone
1st Place in DLTC Weekly #4 - Makaveli

Performance Metric

Remarks

The tournament scene reflected GRF performance very well, with Music, Jointech and Aqua as the big decks. There are some archive skills in the top 100, there are no lists yet but it seems were Gradius lists.

Tournaments considered

Format Players 1st 2nd Top 4 Top 4
Rush Duel Links Weekly #48 SE/No Side 29 Jointech Baseball Jointech Music Princess
Quantum Rush #89 SE/No Side 27 Gradius Aqua Aqua Music Princess

Winning Deck Examples

1st Place in Quantum Rush #89 - Giorfio